Monday.com Improves Workplace Collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
What is most helpful about Monday.com is it allows you to collaborate with your team and different teams. Even if you work remotely you are able to show what you are working on and see what your team members are working on. It also drastically can't cut down on the number of meetings you need to have.
What do you dislike about the product?
What is least helpful about Monday.com is the number of options you have access to. Sometimes with all the choices and options you have, it can complicate the process. It can take some time to get the basics down.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monday.com is solving the problem of knowing what m team is working on. We are clearly able to show on our board what projects are team are working on, and what are our key objectives for the quarter.
Helps you avoid delays because you can visualize your deadlines and track your progress
What is our primary use case?
I am a consultant who helps companies implement monday.com. I do not use the solution at my organization. The use case depends on the client. Every company needs tools for collaboration and organization, and most use Office 365, Google Docs, etc. Around 80 percent of my clients are agencies, but they've reached the limits of what they can do in terms of collaboration with their existing tools.
Most of the clients who contact me already know that they want to implement monday.com, so it's not like I'm selling them the solution. They want something to facilitate their collaboration and communication.
How has it helped my organization?
monday.com is an excellent tool to follow your project timeline to see where you are and where you want to go. It's super flexible. Thanks to all the automation, you can do practically anything with monday.com.
It's great for managers. The dashboard gives you an overview of your team's workload, so you can see how long it takes for each person to complete a task. There are many kinds of dashboards, each with widgets that offer insight into what is happening.
monday.com helps you avoid delays because you can visualize your deadlines and track your progress. It can help you break down silos in an organization to some extent, but it's just a tool. Some companies think a tool will change everything. The tool will help you manage your files, but it depends on the company's politics and how people want to work together. If your directors and managers want to avoid silos, monday.com will help them do that easily. It's an excellent tool for collaborating across various services, but it depends on the company's policy.
What is most valuable?
I like the automation you can do with monday.com. You can automate priorities, status changes, notifications, etc. You may need another solution to create this automation in other tools, but monday.com includes everything. The Gantt view for project planning is also pretty good.
The interface is another area where monday.com shines. It is colorful and visually appealing. You can paint with colors, and there are multiple views. If you are the type of person who wants all of your information displayed linearly, you can set it up in lines.
It's the best tool for evaluating timelines and projects. The most challenging part is deciding how you want to display your information, but as soon as you know what you're doing, it's effortless to view where you are in the project and who's involved.
You can set up a simple project in under five minutes, but a super complex one might take a few days. I think it's straightforward if you know how you want to organize your information.
monday.com is accessible to non-technical users but takes a lot of time. They have many tutorials, and you can easily use monday.com if you can take the time to go through them and learn. When you initially create a project, it's only a board with lines on which you enter the tasks. You have some columns with the task owner, status, deadlines, etc. It is not that easy to understand all the features and how you can use them for your case, which is why people contact me.
When you implement the tool, you decide which layout to use and what information you want to disclose. I've seen clients who have been using this for three years, and they still only know how to do things one way because they haven't taken the time to understand all the features. It's crucial to spend time at the start and learn the tool. I don't think the learning curve is that huge.
What needs improvement?
monday.com is missing a few features but not many. For example, let's say you're working on a global project for a marketing campaign, and you have the video team working on it. Maybe the video team only wants a board that shows the packages that are related to them, but you cannot do that on monday.com. You can't have the same task in multiple projects.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with monday.com for about a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
If you are doing a lot of automation, it can start to lag a little.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
monday.com is highly scalable. You can use it with teams of any size.
How are customer service and support?
I am a partner, so I have access to many different resource sets. I have never contacted their tech support because I already have access to all the information I need.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I use Asana every day, and we work with Optix. I've also used Trello and Excel. Asana is easier to use, but monday.com is more flexible and can do more. Asana is user-friendly, and monday.com is more powerful.
How was the initial setup?
Setting up the tool is straightforward, but you also need to consider the process that you're implementing and do some work beyond the tool itself. I have teams of 20 to 30 people, and three or four are usually involved in the integration. After deployment, it doesn't require any maintenance. It just works.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
monday.com is pretty affordable. It's cheaper than Asana. There are four tiers, including a free version. The free version is fine if you don't have any complex projects. One of the most advanced plans is around $16 per month per user.
What other advice do I have?
I rate monday.com a nine out of ten. I remove one point for the performance issues. I recommend taking your time in the beginning. Don't rush into implementation. It's only a tool, and you can't expect it to instantly transform your organization. Take the time to understand all the features and what you hope to get from it.
Easy-to-use and collaborative task management tool
What do you like best about the product?
It's relatively straightforward to use, I never had any issues with figuring out the platform. Once you've setup a board, managing it is effortless. Probably the easiest one to get started with.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much to dislike - if I had to say something, the dashboards can be quite visually dull, compared to competitors who have more vibrant/fun features like Asana's unicorns.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Visibility across larger projects within the team, so everyone is looped in on expectations, outcomes and timelines. Everything is in one place, tracked and recorded.
Excellent
What do you like best about the product?
Reports and manages the project. Help to track who is working on which tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Interlinking boards have a limit and need to edit the current one to add new
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Team management is the best one on Monday.com as a manager
Project management in a glance
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to add, visualize, control and edit information. Color-coding and including people is also fast and easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
It lacks some functions, such as filtering by a custom date period.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can keep track of all platforms and documents I work with, and check easily their status.
What a benefit it has been
What do you like best about the product?
When I first saw Monday.com, I thought it was just another spreadsheet form, but then I started looking deeper. With the automation and inter-board interface with the others in my company, I found it was much more than the first impression. It has given my company much greater access to data and freed up so much time to get the real issues resolved.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a lack of interface with specific devices, and without writing my programs, things like BarCodes, scanners and QR codes do not interface with the programs. It can also be hard to locate programs and widgets that fit your requirements
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My company uses several different programs, like SAP, Salesforce and Microsoft Suites, but there has always been a gap between the systems. Mondays.com has bridged that gap by allowing us to create a way to join everything into one location that will interface with all of them. It has made that internal communication far more accessible than any single program that we have used in the past.
Monday.com makes mondays less of a drag!
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to view. Clear dashboards of delegation, timeline, completion etc. One of the easier software to onboard.
What do you dislike about the product?
Slightly limited in features and integration, but price wise is ok.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
No project management was used prior, so this was a first inplementation to get the team more organised, and for the MD to have visibility on projects and resources, and forecast resource requirements through the product market cycle.
Overly positive experience with small problems.
What do you like best about the product?
Monday.com is best used for organization and assigning tasks to members of our team. Being able to clearly see the tasks that my coworkers are doing at the moment helps a ton.
What do you dislike about the product?
Monday.com can get incredibly congested at times to be confusing to navigate. At times, the application lags and doesn't update tasks as they were changed - leaving room for confusion from the team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monday.com is solving the problem of quickly and effectively assigning tasks to our team members. Everybody is far more effective with these tasks being clearly drawn out for everyone to see.
Monday transformed our HR department
What do you like best about the product?
Monday made all of our ideas come to life. We were able to stand up onboarding, job changes, and offboarding. These are automated using other internal systems and create dashboards to review.
What do you dislike about the product?
It took some time to understand how to create what we needed. Our onboarding specialist Collins was instrumental in helping us through this place. It went much farther than the training videos because we tested and understood while working towards our goals.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Onboarding, job changes, offboarding, location tracking, performance improvement plans, project tracking, new hire surveys, probationary period tracking, and many more.
Easy to provide updates to team, managers, and directors
What do you like best about the product?
it's not complicated or requires a special app installed like Microsoft Project. Gantt charts will slowly kill you. Monday seems a bit fun... it makes project management more enjoyable.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think there's a lot to fit on a screen - and sometimes when you're scaled down to just the laptop screen working on the go, it's hard to see everything the same as if you're sitting in front of your large monitor at home.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helping us visually divvy up things that need review and working on projects. it's easy to look at, and that's a nice place to start.
